The evolution of Jammy Gizzard continues with this grooviest of sets.  The boys waste no time and dive right into the jams with a fiery Rattlesnake, suffused with touches of Honey and Sleepdrifter.  The last "rattle's me" cuts off the rest of the band as Stu continues riffing and the band jumps right back in with Honey proper, and more Sleepdrifter teases.

After only two songs, the banana is shelved and the crew rolls out the synth cart for a rousing rendition of Shanghai.  Ambrose's falsetto verses ring through over the synth loops before the band takes off into a lengthy jam over the main riff.  If this is any indication of the sounds of the second 2023 album, I am very excited to hear more.  Shanghai is followed up by Hate Dancin' and Astroturf.  Hate Dancin still perhaps needs a bit of drilling but Astroturf was spot on, every note landed, and Lukey and Cavs held down the last half of the song with frightening precision.

After the Changes set, it's Cookie's Turn.  Continuing on the funky groovy theme of the night, Cookie Dawg calls out Down The Sink, my personal favorite song off Gumboot Soup, and a welcome return to live rotation.  Cookie's playing and vocals on this track are on point, and towards the tail end of the song, the funk gets even funkier.  The band gets hectic and louder and ever so chaotic, before dropping without warning back into one last chorus.

A long, dramatic pause in the music, as the boys have a brief chat about what is coming next.  Speculation and gossip in the audience grows as listeners wonder what the band is about to drop on us.  "Lucas just asked me what key this is in, that's how prepared we are for this.  Ah, fuck it, Invisible Face."  Massive cheers erupt from the audience as the band plays a song not heard since 2018, and like the rest of the set before it, it is most funky.  The breakdown wove in and out, quiet and loud, as a mesmirizing nonagon played across the video board.  Eventually Stu brought it back to the head for the transition into Wah Wah, although they could scarsely get past the second verse before dipping into the River jam from the previous night.  A few more minutes of swimming in the river before we got back to Wah Wah and Cav's double kick powered the band straight into Road Train, releasing all the tension built up from the previous two songs.

In case you thought we were done with the funk, you were wrong.  A long, drawn out riffy jam eventually grew into Ice V, replete with Stu and Joey guitar solos and sexy saxy Ambrose trills.  The post chorus jam took a turn for the heavy, as the band came back in for the Queen of Ice verse.  Instead of the usual G Dorian riff, the band appears to be playing over a sort of Andalusian Cadence (I, bVII, bVI, V).  Is this a new version of the song, or a hint at something to come later?  Only time will tell.

A brief break in the music as the band breaks out the heavy metal instruments.  Excitement in the audience swells as we are finally getting more metal.  And they the pull the rug out from under us with a spot on rendition of the Inner Cell suite.  Up next is Supercell from PetroDragonic Apocolypse, a fully formed storm of thrashy goodness.  After that, we get a drawn out intro for Self Imolate, but before they can launch into the song proper, the boys sit down and Cavs and Lukey open up a drums and bass jam.  The other members slowly join in, creating a heavy metal soundscape.  Pulsing tribal rhythms lead listeners on a fiery run across the surface of Venus for several minutes, building up the energy until eventually returning to the main song and unleashing that energy back into the crowd.  They're getting good at this.

One last song to close out the night.  A gentle riff starts, then builds, culminating in a lovely, albeit shorter, Am I In Heaven?  The length does not mean the song was a let down at all.  We had gotten plenty of jams that night, and one last banger to round out the set was just what the doctor ordered.  The whole audience screaming the chorus over top the four-on-the-floor drums brought the whole Wierdo Swarm together for one last dance in the rain.

With two incredible and unique shows already finished, the swarm is left wondering what is still in store on night 3.